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Drinking the Kool Aid is not Cool.

Well with the demise of Microsoft's CEO I am being praised for seeing something as if I was the only one who could guess that the disease that had set in to one of the worlds largest sofware companies was somehting unusual.

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 23,
2013 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer
Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, upon the
completion of a process to choose his successor. In the meantime, Ballmer will
continue as CEO and will lead Microsoft through the next steps of its
transformation to a devices and services company that empowers people for the
activities they value most.

“There is never a perfect time for
this type of transition, but now is the right time,” Ballmer said. “We have
embarked on a new strategy with a new organization and we have an amazing
Senior Leadership Team. My original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement
happen in the middle of our company’s transformation to a devices and services
company. We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction.”

There has been a lot written about the decline of Microsoft but for those of us in Legal Technology we have limited alternative choices. Indeed in the case of the Practice Management vendors they have swallowed the Microsoft Kool Aid to an almost terminal degree,

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